Sanitary fixture.



No. 642,754. Patented Feb, 6,1900.- A. YPLANTIEB.

SANITARY FIXTURE.

(Application filed May 11, 1899.) (No Model.)

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ED STATES PATENT Erica ARTHUR PLANTIER, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE TRENTON POTTERIES COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SANITARY FIXTU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,754, dated February 6, 1900.

Application filed May 11, 1899. Serial No. 716,408. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR PLANTIER, of Trenton, in the State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Fixtures, of which the following is a description, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

The improvements relate especially to the construction in earthenware siphon-jet closets. They are of so simple a nature that they will best be understood from the illustrative accompanying drawings and be specified in the claims.

The object is to simplify the fixture, both in respect to the requirements of its construction and the facility with which its exterior may be cleaned and kept clean. The objectionable necessity of forming the j et-passages complete and separate from the wallsof the siphon and subsequently applying them before firing the earthenware is obviated, and at the same time the exterior, instead of presenting a bulging contour where the jet-passage is placed or necessitating an outer wallto conceal the jetpassage, is in my improved construction smooth and without bulge to indicate the presence of the jet passage-way.

Figure 1 is a central vertical anterior-posterior section, and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the horizontal plane 2 2 of Fig. 1.

This improved fixture may have any suitable form of bowl I), flushing-rim 'r', and asiphon having uptake u and downtake cl. Also the jet opening or nozzle 12 may be in the usual form and. position. The jet-passage from the flushing-pipe connection to the jetopening, instead of running down the side of the siphon and projecting noticeably from the otherwise smooth exterior and instead also of necessitating the formation of such a side passage in the manufacture of the closet, lies between the inner brackets of the closet, as shown, extending between the uptake and downtake of the siphon, as at j, and connecting with the flushing-passage fby means of the connecting-ducts 0, formed in part by the wall of the dome of the siphon. As another result of this improvement the exterior, in addition to being more sightly, presents a smooth surface that is more readily cleaned and kept clean.

What I claim as the distinguishing features of my improved fixture are the following:

1. A sanitary fixture of the class described and having a siphon and a jet-opening, the uptake and downtake of the siphon being separated and forming in the interval between them a passage-way extending substantially parallel therewith and connected with the flushing-pipe opening and the jet-opening, substantially as set forth.

2. A sanitary fixture of the class described and having a siphon jet-opening, the uptake and downtake of the siphon being separated and forming in the interval between them a passage-way extending substantially parallel therewith and connecting with the jet-opening, and one or more ducts c laterally fiattened against, and formed in part by, the siphon-wall, and connecting the said passageway with the flushing-pipe opening, substantially as set forth.

3. A sanitary fixture of the class described and having a siphon jet-opening, the uptake and downtake of the siphon being separated and forming in the interval between them a passage-way extending substantially parallel therewith and connecting with the jet-opening, and one or more ducts c therefor, laterally flattened and passing the siphon ata point or points where the siphon itself is flattened laterally to make room forsuch duct or ducts, substantially as set forth.

4:, A sanitaryfixture of the class described and having a siphon and a jet-opening, the uptake and downtake of the siphon being separated and forming in the interval between them a passage-way extending substantially parallel therewith and connecting with the jet-opening, and one or more ducts 0 connecting the said passage-way with the flushingpipe opening and passingthe siphon at a point where the siphon is flattened or depressed laterally to make room therefor, substantially as set forth.

5. A sanitary fixture of the class described provided with a siphon, a jet-opening, and a jet passage-way which crosses the dome of the siphon at a point where the siphon is fiattened or depressed laterally to receive it, the tened laterally to compensate for the said paswall of the siphon constituting in part also the inside wall of such passage-Way, substantially as set forth.

6. A sanitary fixture of the class described provided with a siphon, a jet-opening, and a jet passage-way which crosses the dome of the siphon at a point where the outer wall of such passage way lies flush with, and does not bulge or project laterally beyond, the side walls of the siphon, the said siphon being flatsage-Way, and the Walls of the siphon and of the passage-way forming a smooth exterior, as shown and described.

Signed this 21st day of April, 1899, at Trenton, New Jersey.

ARTHUR PLANTIER.

Witnesses:

JOHN T. MOORE, J AMES I-I. HAMMOND. 

